How to Talk (Or Primary Lessons in the English Language), 1882, With Excellent Endpapers and Energetic Hand-coloring black pottery ocarina Loss around one eye as

Loss around one eye as evident and old repair/repainting around the other I believe

and features a series of pages filled with marvelous little watercolors drawings of birds and deer and leopards and  houses and flowers and fruits and flourishes

Okada at the Shijonawate Police Station in Osaka to Lieutenant Fulton

such that one needs to be a bit gentle with it

How to Talk (Or Primary Lessons in the English Language), 1882, With Excellent Endpapers and Energetic Hand-coloring black pottery ocarina Loss around one eye asI purchased this one for the "HOW TO TALK" handwritten on the inside cover that alone did it for me. But I quite like what looks like a musical staff on the opposite page, too, as if to suggest that there are other ways to communicate! The book is indeed titled How to Talk (Or Primary Lessons in the English Language) by W. B. Powell, published by E. H Butler and Co., Philadelphia, 1882. Lots of useful lessons inside and lots of good illustrations too,